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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:51:14 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tree tagging put off by ~12 hours.
Message-ID:  <199807220451.OAA21809@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Oh, BTW, freefall is taking NMI's now.  No idea why except that it's a
>fairly hot box (or was yesterday).  It NMI'd while I was sitting at
>the console yesterday and I simply continued it out of the debugger
>again and then compiled a kernel with POWERFAIL_NMI so it wouldn't do
>it again.

Gack.  FreeBSD mishandles NMIs (the NMI gate isn't an interrupt gate...).
This normally doesn't cause any more problems than the correct response
to an NMI (panic), but POWERFAIL_NMI prevents the correct response.

Bruce

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